News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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What I’m Reading Now… by Steven Dunn
Tarpaulin Sky Press author Steven Dunn discusses books by Ron Austin, Caren Beilin, Julia Bouwsma, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Lisa Marie Rollins.
What I’m Reading Now… by Michael Leong
Michael Leong discusses "Fake News" and books by Caroline Bergvall, Robin Coste Lewis, Solmaz Sharif, Layli Long Soldier, and Divya Victor.
What I’m Reading Now… by Sophie Yanow
Cartoonist Sophie Yanow discusses literary comics by Liana Finck, Aisha Franz, Jason, Powerpaola, Keiler Roberts.
Sade LaNay’s “Härte” Reviewed by Steven Dunn
"Härte is the language of liminality, labor, pain, and transference.... Accumulated exhaustion ... how we negotiate responding to violence, and how we enact violence."
Elytron Frass’s “Liber Exuvia” reviewed by Maxime Berclaz
"A binding of media under the sign of the mantis to instantiate the cannibalism of the head, a ritual for auto-decapitation and regrowth, a production of what is seemingly negation."
Party For Your Right To Fight: Michael Hughes’ “Magic For The Resistance”
"Everything’s here, from clear & concise technical instruction, to tales of occult anti-Nazi ww2 actions, to self-care ... to recipes for spells ... for hexing the NRA, for justice for victims of police violence, for healing the Earth, for reproductive rights."
Gracie Leavitt’s “Livingry” reviewed by Savannah Hampton
"a fluid energy that vibrates as pieces of silk harbored through the texture of the earth: physicality of the dash: broken semantic being of the fragment: erratic patterns of a garden. "
Kristin Chang’s “Past Lives, Future Bodies” reviewed by Brenna Womer
"A record of violence: exoticism, murder and capitalism, beginnings; silence, language, jars of teeth, mouths and stomachs full of rot; family and memory and fire."
What I’m Reading Now… by Adam Tedesco
Adam Tedesco examines books by Umberto Eco, Brad Phillips, Hajara Quinn, Michael Sikkema, and Bridget Talone. "Here the mystic and sensuous entwine themselves with the hum of violence normalized by patriarchy...."
Janaka Stucky’s “Ascend, Ascend” reviewed by Chris Muravez
"We thrive on the dead – animal and plant carcasses, fossilized energy, microbial environments in our guts – and in this sin, we are allowed to continue breathing, fucking, shitting, living, becoming." Chris Muravez explores "negative ecstasy, incantations, and ritualistic destruction of the ego" in Janaka Stucky's Ascend, Ascend, from Third Man Books.
What I’m Reading Now… by Terri Witek
Terri Witek discusses "The Tale of Genji" and the Minard System, as well as books by Charlotte Salomon, Olga Tokarczuk, and others.
“I Cannot Resist the Terror”: Essay by Olivia Cronk
"Dizzy time-travel alienation self/ selves sadnessexhilaration. To walk 'the edge of the abyss.'” Olivia Cronk examines multiple selves, Scenes from a Marriage, The Double Life of Véronique, and books by Dionne Brand, Amanda Goldblatt, and Maria Negroni.
What I’m Reading Now … by Suzanne Richardson
Suzanne Richardson discusses books by Casandra López, Lacy M. Johnson, Malcolm Friend, and Jenifer Sang Eun Park.
Jordan Davis’ “Shell Game” and Drew Gardner’s “Defender” reviewed by Tyrone Williams
Davis's Shell Game and Gardner's Defender "demonstrate the discursive poles of naïveté and cynicism underpinning avant-garde practices." -- Tyrone Williams
Stephanie Strickland’s “The Universe Is Made,” reviewed by Terese Svoboda
Always, a darting sharp intelligence dares the reader to follow, impatient with empathy, refusing prompting, overlaid with a grave concern for women in a catastrophic world." -- Terese Svoboda on Stephanie Strickland's How the Universe is Made: New and Selected Poems